Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr area of ...

I was a PoW at the Luftwaffe's main Camp, Stalag Luft III. The Goons, as we called the Germans, treated us well and observed the Geneva Convention, an international treaty on the treatment of PoWs.

3 colour charts in pocket inside back cover of vol. 1. 2 colour charts and an appendix inside back cover of vol. 2. v. 2 written also with J. Richard Smith and Tom Willis. v. 1. Pre-war development, ...